The Art Academy

NEWINGTON

The Art Academy Newington

In September 2017 Southwark Council granted the Art Academy use of the former Newington Library, Walworth Road. The site allows us to expand our short course offering, give more studio space to our academic students and manage a new public gallery space, available for exhibitions and cumminuty activities. Southwark Council has supported the Academy to take on this additional premises for two years.

Resident artist spaces available at Newington

We also have Resident Artist studios to rent at our Newington site. Studios vary in size from 60 square foot to 800 square foot and are available at competitive rates. The studios are accessible from 7am to 11pm and contracts are rolling monthly with one month notice required. For more information on the Resident Artist spaces we have available please email our Operations Manager, astrid@artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44 (0) 20 7701 2880.

Address

The Former Newington Library
155 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1RS
United Kingdom

Newington Gallery Use and Hire

The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.

Our first free public exhibition programme opened in September 2017 with ‘Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection’, commissioned and produced by Artangel, one of the UK’s pioneering facilitators of daring and innovative public art. We are now inviting other artists and local community groups to exhibit with us.

For more information on how to rent or programme events please email Zuzana Knightova, Public Programmes Manager, zuzana@ artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44(0)20 7701 2880.

Newington Gallery Exhibitions

The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.

An Art and Geology project focusing on the geology of London and the area of Elephant and Castle. It explores the Rockingham Street Anomaly, the Elephant Park building site, the fluvial deposits from the River Thames and the clay and chalk of the London Basin. Layers in the work are placed using collected sediments made into earth pigments, and temporary exposures on a building site are captured on film. London’s strata is glimpsed through research and collaboration with the London Geodiversity Partnership.

BEAM Exhibition

An exhibition by BEAM Art; a group run by Southwark Disablement Association (SDA). BEAM Art offers ‘disabled artists the chance to create art in a group setting with the opportunity for discussion, conversation and learning from each other in a fully accessible environment.’

The Academy has been working in partnership with SDA to support the BEAM Art programme for over 3 years. Art Academy students Emily Russell and Jo Holt have been working in conjunction with the artists to present an exhibition that reflects the diversity of their practices, which include painting, print and poetry.

Shadowbox Exhibition

An exhibition of 6 contemporary artists exploring truth and fiction within the context of our shifting cultural landscape.